Hi Quartz Africa reader,
“If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades,” said Bill Gates in a 2015 TED Talk, “it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.”
At the time, West Africa was battling a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people. Now, more than two years after it began to infect humans, covid-19 is thought to have taken the lives of millions globally.
This past…
